Since I'm having performance problems with rsnapshot, I'd like to identify directories with great number of files recursively. I think the problem is not the size of the files, but the file count in ...

Preface: I realize the following is asking for tinfoil-hat type security, but I'm really curious for answers to my questions -- not suggestions to enable two-factor logons on gmail, etc. and call it a ...

I'm trying to make a FIFO script that keeps deleting files when disk usages reaches a limit. I have used the find command so that number of files wont be a limit to run the script. But I get an error
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According to the very likely sounding answer to How to access and manage a large mailbox (11 GB) I need to use mutt to open the large mailbox. However the 2G limit was supposed to have been removed ...

I want to analyze code coverage datas. I want to create gcov files from OpenSSL (and from other projects), but I can only create them in the same directory of the project, and only for the files in ...

We're moving websites from one server configuration to a new configuration and the websites will live in different paths than previously. We're planning to diligently go through and replace old paths ...

I have a tools directory /tools/tool_name that has hundreds of releases of the tool inside. I am trying to find an easy way of knowing what releases can be archived. Is there an easy way of finding ...

I have several directories each containing a file containing this line:
../a_a_q1.out ../a_a_q2.out ../a_a_q3.out
I would like to loop through all the subdirectories, and change the a_a part to the ...

I am trying to write a kind of keylogger myself. I don't know if my logic of developing a keylogger is good or not but I have thought of doing it the following way.
First a daemon is created, and to ...

I am running a small cli python app in terminal. It loops infinitely and outputs text to the terminal. I want to output the text to a file, and I can do that with the following command python [my cli ...

I have a large tree containing a lot of photos on an external drive that was formatted with one of the linux filesystem types (don't remember which one). It's mounted on my mac and I'm trying to copy ...

I want to zip the directories, sub directories, files in main and sub directories from today till 150 days ago.
I only consider the date of the directories where I am running the command, no matter ...

I want to crop a video that I have in yuv format using imagemagick.
I am using the following command:
convert -size 1280x720 my_clip_1280_720s.yuv -verbose -crop 352x288 +repage my_clip_352_288.yuv
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I'm trying to remove some obsolete backups, and deep inside one I've found a file 'cifs3bee' that I can find no way of removing. (And since I can't remove it, it's preventing the removal of the entire ...

I am trying to write a bash script to generate a csv file from text within multiple pdf documents. I have a script for converting pdf to text, but not for generating the csv file. Each text document ...

I often see a checksum given next to a file available for download. The purpose of this practice eludes me. It is obviously to detect corrupt files, but what could be the cause of this corruption and ...

Given a file that I know has been copied into a given directory, I want to find the exact path where the file copy now resides. It is guaranteed the file has not been edited and will look exactly like ...

I have a directory which contains files and sub directories, some of which have whitespace in their names. Further more each of these sub directories contains files with whitespace in their names. Is ...

I wish to know a command I can use to grab and archive all files for a year at a time. I am working on a directory that has 72000 files, with files dated from 2007 to current. And I wish to make that ...

I downloaded an application (LaTeXiT) that installed itself as a disk image. I navigated to /Volumes and into the disk image, but when I try to move the contents to my /Applications folder, it returns ...

I am trying to check if the new file is created in the specific directory or not when I run the shell script.
Here, I am creating a new file through the shell script itself and then checking whether ...

My goal is to find a Linux command sequence, which deletes some files if a special condition is fulfilled:
All files with the extensions .cut or .cut.bak in the current directory shall be removed, IF ...